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MIDWIFERY SERVICE.
This has continued without any major changes, but efforts to
promote co-ordination with the general practitioner obstetricians
have continued, as detailed elsewhere. The Superintendent Midwife
has performed the supervisory duties formerly carried out by
the Medical Supervisor of Midwives, who now visits private
midwives only.
Midwives Acts, 1902 to 1936.
The number of midwives who notified the Local Supervising
Authority of their intention to practice within the Borough during
1950 and who were practising at the end of the year, was 76,
including those who intended practising as maternity nurses.
All these were trained and held the certificate of the Central
Midwives Board.
The Rules of the Central Midwives Board lay down that the
Local Supervising Authority must be informed within 36 hours
by a midwife if she has summoned medical help during pregnancy,
in a confinement or within 14 days afterwards.